I posted in the linked discussion John, but it's not the point here. We're talking about services being killed by android then restarted.
2009/2/1 John Spurlock <john.spurl...@gmail.com> > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/fa2848e31636af70/8d967c32df91a7d1?lnk=gst&q=keeping+a+service+alive > > On Jan 30, 3:09 pm, brs <bernhard.r.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have an app loosely based on the LocalService example from the SDK > > with a controller activity and a long-running, stateful service which > > is doing stuff on a periodic handler. The service is also a bit of a > > memory hog. > > > > It seems that the service is sometimes killed by the activity-manager > > and immediately restarted. I don't see any stack trace, so I assume it > > is not the application crashing but the system doing that, presumably > > to claim resources. Is that what is going on here? > > > > Is there a way to tell the system that this process is kind of > > important, even though it has no foreground activity and should only > > be killed as a last resort? > > > > Bernhard > > > -- Guillaume Perrot Software Engineer at Ubikod BuddyMob developer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---